On Jan 23, 2008 7:14 AM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> most of europe is christian, a higher proportion than india is hindu, Eurobarometer 2005 showed that only 52% of Europeans "believe there is a god" and 18% say "I don' t believe there is any sort of spirit, God or life force" while the 2001 Indian census shows over 80% of Indians are Hindu. > and has fewer linguistic divisions than india Europe has 23 official languages: Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish. India has 22: Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, English, French, Garo, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada , Khasi, Kokborok, Konkani, Malayalam, Marathi, Meitei, Mizo, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu. I'd call that a tie, really. Not drawing any conclusions, just trying to inject some facts. Carry on, -- Charles
